Hamper Blog alex.walker on 17 May 2010 08:50 am
Father’s Day Hampers and Gifts
Designing hampers and gifts for Father’s Day has caused considerable debate in the office as to the spelling of the occasion! More particularly, it’s the placement of the apostrophe in ‘Father’s Day’ that sparked a lively discussion and it turns out that this tiny detail has been a talking point since the celebration was inaugurated in the early 20th Century.
Although the name of the celebration is often understood as a plural possessive (for example, “day belonging to fathers”), which would normally be spelled “Fathers’ Day”, the most common spelling is “Father’s Day”, as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. “day belonging to Father”). Sonora Dodd used the “Fathers’ Day” spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling “Father’s Day” was already used in 1913 and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the US Congress.
